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“Conservatives never win when everybody gets to play.”
― Elie Mystal, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution

“No, what makes abortion difficult is not some fancy lawyering from the right, but the near refusal to defend it from the left.”
― Elie Mystal, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution

“He's not gone," said Jared.

"Oh, and how do you figure that?" Kami demanded. "He seems pretty gone to me."

"When my Dad died... When he died, he wasn't gone. My mom and I could never be what we might have been without him. He stayed like a shadow in every corner of our home, stayed a stain in our hearts. I felt it. I can't believe that good will leave us when evil remains. I will not. I do not.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Unmade

“Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general--but to choose to use the vague expression "human rights" is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women. That the problem was not about being human, but specifically about being a female human.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists